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migrant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French migrant.

Meanings

1. Migratory.

Forms

Deriveds

migranthood (terms derived from adjective or noun) · environmental migrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · nonmigrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · inmigrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · ecomigrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · climate migrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · remigrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · climigrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · economic migrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · Wartenberg's migrant sensory neuritis (terms derived from adjective or noun) · outmigrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · antimigrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · migrant smuggling (terms derived from adjective or noun) · migrant worker (terms derived from adjective or noun) · passage migrant (terms derived from adjective or noun) · migradollar (terms derived from adjective or noun)

migrant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈmaɪɡɹənt/

Etymology

Borrowed from French migrant.

Meanings

1. A migratory animal, in particular a migratory bird.
   • Gilbert White writes, "I have consulted a sportsman who tells me that […] often there are amongst them little parties of small blue doves which he calls rockiers. The food of these numberless migrants was beechmast and some acorns." 1887, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold, Bird Life in England, page 182:
2. Traveller or worker who moves from one region or country to another.
3. (informal) A person who leaves one place in order to permanently settle in another.
   • “But once you lose everything— your home, your school, your clinic, your road, your church—then it’s an impossible situation. You become an environmental migrant because you have to find those facilities in some other place.” 2021 April 22, Aryn Baker, “Environmental Crises Are Forcing Millions Into Cities. Can Countries Turn Climate Migrants Into an Asset?”, in Time, archived from the original on 22 Apr 2021:
   • These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter. 2019 November 25, Peter C. Mancall, “Pilgrims survived until the first Thanksgiving thanks to an epidemic that devastated Native Americans”, in CNN:
4. Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called an emigrant.

Forms

Coordinates

resident

Hypernyms

animal · creature · bird

Hyponyms

immigrant · emigrant

Relateds

migration · migrate

Translations (79)

mk преселник (person moving from one region or country to another) · ja 移住者 (person moving from one region or country to another) · de Migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · sh мѝгрант (person moving from one region or country to another) · mk мигра́нтка (person moving from one region or country to another) · uk мігра́нтка (person moving from one region or country to another) · pl migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · hu migráns (person moving from one region or country to another) · nl migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · ru переселе́нка (person moving from one region or country to another) · pt migrante (person moving from one region or country to another) · bg мигра́нт (person moving from one region or country to another) · tl ibong-lagalag (migratory animal — see also migratory bird) · da migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · sl migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · lt migrantas (person moving from one region or country to another) · fr immigrée (person moving from one region or country to another) · az miqrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · nl migrante (person moving from one region or country to another) · nl trekarbeidster (person moving from one region or country to another) · fa مهاجر (person moving from one region or country to another) · uk переселе́нець (person moving from one region or country to another) · mi manuheke (person moving from one region or country to another) · ru мигра́нт (person moving from one region or country to another) · be перасяле́нец (person moving from one region or country to another) · uk мігра́нт (person moving from one region or country to another) · mk мигра́нт (person moving from one region or country to another) · cs migrantka (person moving from one region or country to another) · hy միգրանտ (person moving from one region or country to another) · es migratoria (migratory animal — see also migratory bird) · mk преселничка (person moving from one region or country to another) · it migratore (person moving from one region or country to another) · ja 渡り者 (person moving from one region or country to another) · fr migrateur (person moving from one region or country to another) · nl trekarbeider (person moving from one region or country to another) · uk переселе́нка (person moving from one region or country to another) · ja 移民 (person moving from one region or country to another) · nb migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · be мігра́нт (person moving from one region or country to another) · ko 이민 (person moving from one region or country to another) · ar مُهَاجِرَة (person moving from one region or country to another) · de Migrantin (person moving from one region or country to another) · ru мигра́нтка (person moving from one region or country to another) · es migratorio (migratory animal — see also migratory bird) · et migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · sv migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · gl migrante (person moving from one region or country to another) · sk migrantka (person moving from one region or country to another) · cmn 移民 (person moving from one region or country to another) · el μετανάστης (person moving from one region or country to another) · uz migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · az mühacir (person moving from one region or country to another) · az köçkün (person moving from one region or country to another) · bg пресе́лник (person moving from one region or country to another) · sk migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · hi प्रवासी (person moving from one region or country to another) · bg пресе́лничка (person moving from one region or country to another) · uz muhojir (person moving from one region or country to another) · bg мигра́нтка (person moving from one region or country to another) · ar مُهَاجِر (person moving from one region or country to another) · sl migrantka (person moving from one region or country to another) · fr immigré (person moving from one region or country to another) · cs migrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · ru переселе́нец (person moving from one region or country to another) · fi siirtotyöläinen (person moving from one region or country to another) · tg муҳоҷир (person moving from one region or country to another) · be мігра́нтка (person moving from one region or country to another) · sh mìgrantkinja (person moving from one region or country to another) · fr migratrice (person moving from one region or country to another) · es migrante (person moving from one region or country to another) · sh mìgrant (person moving from one region or country to another) · ka მიგრანტი (person moving from one region or country to another) · sh мѝгранткиња (person moving from one region or country to another) · lv migrants (person moving from one region or country to another) · it migratrice (person moving from one region or country to another) · pl migrantka (person moving from one region or country to another) · el μετανάστρια (person moving from one region or country to another) · be перасяле́нка (person moving from one region or country to another) · fi siirtolainen (person moving from one region or country to another)